TellApart: Accent Training

TellApart trains your ear to hear English sounds your first language treats as one: R and L, B and V, TH and S, and vowels like the ones in "hat" and "hut". How it works • You hear one word and tap which of two words it was. • The right word lights up, then the next word plays. • Sessions are 20 words at level 1, 30 at level 2 and 50 at level 3. Get about 85% right to open the next level. • See your accuracy for each collection, level and word pair. • Once you reach a collection's top level, you can mix words from every level in a session of 20 to 100 words. 17 sound collections • Consonants: L vs R, B vs V, TH vs S, TH vs Z, S vs SH, F vs H, Y vs no Y, N vs NG. • Vowels: hat/hut, buddy/body, hat/hot, seat/sit, pool/pull, heard/hard, work/walk, bowl/ball, bait/bet. Each collection has up to three levels, from short common words to longer words where the sound sits in the middle. Words are always heard on their own, never in a sentence, so context can't give the answer away. The method TellApart uses high variability phonetic training (HVPT): forced-choice listening with different voices, speeds and background noise. It is the training method best supported by research on learning to hear second-language sounds. Free to start L vs R (levels 1 and 2) and hat/hut are free. One purchase opens every collection and level. No subscription, no ads, no account.